Posted by: Anca on: 11 January 2011
Since our vacation was 3 weeks in Romania, I got to indulge (may I say over-indulge) in the traditional Romanian Christmas dishes. I won’t go into them, you can check a few of them on this Wiki page. When I came back, I wanted to keep the spirit and cook Romanian. So I chose the [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 10 October 2010
I’m a huge garlic eater so naturally I wanted to make this soup after I saw it on the pages of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. But, if you ever tasting one, you will know that you can not suspect what it is made of. Because you boil the garlic along other spices, you [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 26 April 2010
The soup I took from The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I decided to try this one because it’s reminded me of Minestrina tricolore and because it seemed tasty and easy to do. The ingredients for 4 to 6 serves are the following: 25 g butter 2 tbsps vegetable oil 350 g onions, cut into [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 21 March 2010
Hello again, I always try to have some soup or ciorbă in the house. So I was browsing Bucate, vinuri şi obiceiuri româneşti and I randomly chose this soup recipe. It sounded easy and interesting enough.. so why not? If you will like this, you have another ciorbă recipe here. As you can see in [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 1 March 2010
I wanted to use my two new books, so a spanish night seems apropiate. I took this recipe from Vår kokbok. Before the recipe, here are some history notes on this well-known spanish recipe (courtesy of Wikipedia): Gazpacho is a cold Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup, originating in the southern region of Andalusia. Gazpacho is [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 23 January 2010
Hello to all of you again, I’ve just added a new cooking book to my collection. It’s called “Bucate, vinuri şi obiceiuri româneşti” – “Romanian dishes, wines and traditions” by Radu Anton Roman. This book is really famous in Romania because it contains a lot of recipes and traditions from all over the country. Since [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 11 January 2010
I’m the biggggeeest fan of mushrooms. Give me mushrooms in every form, in every meal and I will be the happiest person alive. So, of course, a mushrooms soup was in order. I tried the french recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It didn’t seem so difficult – but I guess none of [...]
Posted by: Anca on: 22 December 2009
Since my blog is called “week-end cooking” and last week had a week-end (yeah, I know, lame excuse), I decided to do some damage in the kitchen. I began with an italian soup, taken from The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. And it turned out so good that it was over real soon and I [...]
